Paulo Coelho Quotes

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It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

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Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.

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God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

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That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

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I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.

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When we boldly seek love, love reveals itself to us, and we end up attracting more love. If one person loves us, everybody loves us.

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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

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The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

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On 11 November 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had — at last! — arrived.

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I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

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Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

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In order to live fully, it is necessary to be in constant movement, only then can each day be different from the last.

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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

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That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

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He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.

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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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An encounter with the superior energy is open to anyone but remains far from those who shift responsibility onto others.

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If someone is giving us something, that's because we're incapable of getting it for ourselves.

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People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

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A defeat exists, but no suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle he is improving the skill with which to wield a sword. He will be able to fight more skillfully next time.

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Saying 'No' does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying 'Yes' is not always a virtue

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Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

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The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

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The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

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